Finalists Announced for the 2018 World Fantasy Awards

Finalists for the 2018 World Fantasy Awards have been announced. These awards honor fiction and artists with nominated material published in 2017 or with a 2017 cover date. I am personally excited to see many books that fellow friends and I adored nominated, including Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin for The Djinn Falls in Love, Carmen Maria Machado for Her Body and Other Parties, and Sofia Samatar for Tender: Stories.

The first World Fantasy Convention was held in Rhode Island in 1975. Last year was the first that the Awards had a newly designed trophy, and it honored many SFF greats. This year’s winners will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention, which is November 1–4, 2018, in Baltimore. The theme this year is “Port in a Storm,” which will include celebrating the 200th anniversary of the science fiction classic, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. 

NOVEL

• The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty (Harper Voyager)
• Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymir by John Crowley (Saga Press)
• The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss (Saga Press)
• Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory (Bond Street Books CA/Knopf US/Riverrun UK)
• The Changeling by Victor LaValle (Spiegal & Grau)
• Jade City by Fonda Lee (Orbit)

LONG FICTION (10,000 to 40,000 words)

• The Teardrop Method by Simon Avery (TTA Press)
• In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle (Tachyon Publications)
• Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com)
• Passing Strange by Ellen Klages (Tor.com)
• The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang (Tor.com)

SHORT FICTION (under 10,000 words)

• “Old Souls” by Fonda Lee (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy)
• “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™” by Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex Magazine, Aug. 2017)
• “The Birding: A Fairy Tale” by Natalia Theodoridou (Strange Horizons, Dec. 18, 2017)
• “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand” by Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, Sept.–Oct. 2017)
• “Carnival Nine” by Caroline Yoachim (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, May 11, 2017)

ANTHOLOGY

• The New Voices of Fantasy, edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman (Tachyon Publications)
• Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow (Pegasus Books)
• The Book of Swords, edited by Gardner Dozois (Bantam Books US/Harper Voyager UK)
• The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, edited by Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin (Solaris)
• The Best of Subterranean edited by William Schafer (Subterranean Press)

COLLECTION

• Wicked Wonders by Ellen Klages (Tachyon Publications)
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press)
• Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers by Tim Powers (Baen Books)
• Tender by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press)
• The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen (Tachyon Publications)

ARTIST

• Gregory Manchess
• Victo Ngai
• Omar Rayyan
• Rima Staines
• Fiona Staples

SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL

• Harry Brockway, Patrick McGrath, and Danel Olson for Writing Madness (Centipede Press)
• C. C. Finlay, for F&SF editing
• Irene Gallo, for Art Direction at Tor Books and Tor.com
• Greg Ketter, for DreamHaven Books
• Leslie Klinger, for The New Annotated Frankenstein (Liveright Publishing Corp.)

SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL

• Scott H. Andrews, for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy
• Justina Ireland and Troy L. Wiggins, for FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction
• Khaalidah Muhammed-Ali and Jen R Albert, for PodCastle
• Ray B. Russell and Rosalie Parker, for Tartarus Press
• Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, for Uncanny Magazine

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

• Charles de Lint
• Elizabeth Wollheim